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@chance.dev
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Senior useEffect engineer @workos.bsky.social
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6/10. I might have a problem.
6 electric guitars hanging on a wall. From left to right: 1. Fender Jazzmaster in olive drab green 2. Fender Tom Delonge Starcaster in Shoreline gold 3. Fender Thinline Telecaster in a dark brown stain 4. Fender HH Strat in Fiesta Red 5. Epiphone Firebird in Ember Red 6. Custom build HH Jazzmaster in Pearl White
October 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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If anyone is bopping around at React Conf and wants a Radix shirt, find me and I’ll hook you up.
Off white T shirt with a retro-geometric design variation of the Radix UI logo.
October 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Best conference ever kicking off LFG 🇪🇸 @reactalicante.es
Presentation stage with a large screen reading “React Alicante. The international React.js conference in Spain”
October 3, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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That said…might be a good time to get back into consulting. Sharp knives gonna cut.
Screenshot from the React docs: When to use useEffectEvent You should use useEffectEvent for functions that are conceptually "events" that happen to be fired from an Effect instead of a user event (that's what makes it an "Effect Event"). You don't need to wrap everything in useEffectEvent, or to use it just to silence the lint error, as this can lead to bugs. For a deep dive on how to think about Event Effects, see: Separating Events from Effects.
October 2, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Had to go to the bad place for a screenshot, but I’m stoked to be speaking at React Conf next week!

Join me live or via stream to learn about why ViewTransition and Activity are such badass APIs, coming soon to a React near you.
Tweet that reads: @chancethedev is giving a talk on React’s new features. October 7-8, 2025 at React Conf. conf.react.dev
October 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Bass day in the sound lab
Me holding a bass in a music studio throwing a 🤙 gesture
July 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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cooking something up, from the degenerate mind of @chantastic.bsky.social
screenshot showing a StreamYard account named "OnlyChan.*s"
July 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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This one is up there
Me holding a medal after running a marathon in Antarctica
June 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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🔟
Selfie of me after my 10th half marathon, smiling and holding a medal. 13.16 miles in 1 hour 44 minutes, 7:54 minute per mile pace.
June 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Making things today
A drum set all mic’d up ready to record, in front of a wall of guitar amps in a music studio
May 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Worthy addition imo
Screenshot of the Rev Left Radio podcast
May 20, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Not bad for pushing 40
Selfie of my flipping the ol bird during a running race. Stats show a half marathon in 1:50 at 8:20 minute per mile pace.
May 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Jack Nicholson as the Joker, dancing and breaking things during the painting scene in the 1989 Batman movie
May 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Got a wife yesterday ☺️
Selfie with me and my lovely new wife at our wedding wearing the fanciest of wedding things
May 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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This one smelled pretty great
New Epiphone Firebird V guitar in red with a white pickguard
May 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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gtfoh
Snippet from a news article about Italian cardinals who may succeed the pope, highlighting the last name of one: “Another Italian possibility is Cardinal Piersbattista Pizzaballa…”
April 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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“Text me when you land”
Text message screenshot reading “plane crashed, texting you from hell”
April 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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me: I’m gonna stay an extra day after the conference to relax and recover

also me:
Photo of the bay in Miami with Strava stats overlayed for a 12 mile, 1 hour 46 minute run
April 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Made other people live code for my talk, 10/10 highly recommend
Standing on stage smiling and relaxed next to Dave as he live codes intensely for a captivated crowd
April 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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In the lab
A drum kit set up and mic’s up in a dark recording studio
April 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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What do you think @chantastic.bsky.social and I are discussing here?
Me and Chan looking at each other with straight faces while making silly gestures with our hands. Chan is sticking the index finger of one hand into the fist of the other, while I am interlocking my fingers
April 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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got the CSS wildin for this one
March 31, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Dropping this on a Friday should be a crime
Screenshot of a GitHub issue showing Next.is has a critical security bug with its middleware
March 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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@nerdy.dev is there a way to transition between intrinsic sizes if the size property itself remains the same?

Was hoping this would work without additional JS to determine the starting height, but no dice!
:root { interpolate-size: allow-keywords; } .content { /* property value never changes, but size does when content changes */ height: calc-size(fit-content, size); } @media (prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference) { /* this does not work :( presumably because height property value has not changed? */ .content { transition: height 0.35s ease; } }
March 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Had a blast
Me standing on a colorfully lit stage playing guitar
March 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM